# yellows

Pronunciation: say "YEL-ohz" US /ˈjɛl.oʊz/, UK /ˈjɛl.əʊz/, AUS /ˈjel.əʉz/

## Noun

1. Plural of yellow. — plural of yellow
   - Simple: Plural of yellow. Use this when talking about more than one shade of yellow.
   - _The designer chose three warm yellows for the fall collection._
   - _Goldenrod and lemon are two very different yellows._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of yellow. — third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of yellow. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _Newsprint yellows within a few years of printing._
   - _The varnish yellows as it ages, dulling the colors beneath it._

## Noun

3. A plant disease, seen especially in peach trees, that causes the leaves to turn yellowish. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A plant disease, mostly of peach trees, that turns the leaves a pale yellow color.
   - _By midsummer the yellows had spread through the entire row of fruit trees._
   - _An old farmer warned that the yellows could ruin a whole orchard within a season._
4. A form of jaundice affecting horses, cattle, and sheep, in which the eyes turn yellow. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A sickness in horses, cattle, and sheep that makes their eyes look yellow.
   - _The old herdsman could spot the yellows at a glance from the color of a cow's eyes._
   - _Two of the plow horses were down with the yellows by the end of the month._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/yellows (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).